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Chamath predicts public internet AI models will hit parity within nine months
“So if you are using the open internet, Lama, Mistral, OpenAI, they're all getting to the same Quality code point, and they will be there within the next six to nine months.”
Chamath harshly criticizes VCs writing small checks into massive AI seed rounds
“When you're embedding four million in a hundred and five million dollar round at 240 plus, you do not know what the fuck you're doing.”
Brad Gerstner predicts upcoming AI funding rounds will dwarf Mistral's €105M seed
“There are going to be a couple of monster rounds, I think announced next week, like that are going to make this one look like kids play.”
Chamath: Mistral and open-source models are superior to Llama 2
“Before I give all the credit to Facebook, I'd rather say that I think there are a lot of open source alternatives, including Mistral, that I think are much better. And free and open and in the clear where you can have unencumbered growth, not dependent on anyb…”
Mensch: Mistral AI will train next-gen frontier models with NVIDIA
“Well, we are announcing that we are going to be training the next generation of Frontier models with NVIDIA.”
Mensch: Mistral deploys model training tools directly on client infrastructure
“Overall the data segregation is super important and the way we have solved that is through a portable platform. So our technology is a set of services, a set of training tools, A set of data processing tools that I can take and that I can put on the infrastruc…”